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Five fun facts for this five-year favorite (launched April 5, 2008): 1. Edgar Allan Poe never designed a single t-shirt himself. 2. Ravens live up to 20 years in the wild. This shirt is still a kid, in raven terms. 3. This design has been in our top 20 for 261 weeks now (a record) and 4. has sold 54,000 shirts to date (#2 all-time). 5. If you don't own it in any form, we can't be friends.

bpr2

Narfcake

Oh well in five years time I could be worn out, overdue
With holes all around, as a rag for wiping goo
I may be long and gone, stained of old ink blue
Or lost in a closet under an old shoe

And it was one one one, that I had lasted
And one one one, I kept the sell
And one one one, while others blasted
And one one one, so what the hell!

'cause time have passed and I'm still selling lots and lots
While beating other shirts, to the dismay of WootBot
Every Monday, I've managed to cross the finish line
And in the top-20, so many times after time

And it was fun fun fun, hearing all the rants
It was fun fun fun, that I'm not done
And it was fun fun fun, to hear folks recant
It was fun fun fun, oh it was fun

While these years have gone by, I'm still here to be seen
So many short lived while I'm now the old bean
Those weeks and those sales, it's all like a zoo
But I survived every time, finding buyers anew

And it'll be sell sell sell, year over every year
And sell sell sell, I'm doing fine
And it be sell sell sell, to places far and near
And sell sell sell, while Wooters whine

Maybe I'm just timeless, for the poem here at hand
It's slightly abridged, but the folks understand
The shape of a Raven, a calligram just for you
To have lasted this long, is but a dream come true

In five years time, I might not be here
In five years time, I might not be clear
In five years time, I might not sell this long
In five years time, Woot might just prove me wrong

safyrejet

Eeee! Excited. I managed to bleach my way too dark asphalt shirt to an acceptable lighter grey color so I can at least see that there's something on my shirt, but I've always kinda hoped I'd be able to get a Nevermore raven who isn't stuck on an unevenly marbled grey tone t-shirt. I mean bleached marbled splochy shirts don't always look right.

valasia

safyrejet wrote:I managed to bleach my way too dark asphalt shirt to an acceptable lighter grey color so I can at least see that there's something on my shirt, but I've always kinda hoped I'd be able to get a Nevermore raven who isn't stuck on an unevenly marbled grey tone t-shirt. I mean bleached marbled splochy shirts don't always look right.

I bleached mine too, but what I did was put some slightly diluted bleach in a spray bottle and then only sprayed a circular area in the front. It faded it to a grey color with purple edges. I actually like it a bit better than the regular one.

silalus

cyphermagedragon wrote:Awwww man! No normal front-zip hoodie or long-sleeved t-shirt options? Very sad =( Those are the two I'd really wanna get!

Likewise here, particularly the normal front-zip hoodie.

Still, considering the LW hoodie... Loved and wore out the shirt (well, more like it weirdly just started to look like it'd been bleached after a few washings), so something more durable would be awesome.

haxrox

Once upon an old computer, while I mused; a shirt.wooter
Contemplating Text as Art and laying out my evening's chore.
All that night I set to inking (as my time 'til work was shrinking)
A design that I was thinking, possibly could have allure.
"Will this get the votes," I wondered, "Votes sufficient to secure
A derby ranking above four?"

Successfully my sleep was thwarted, every stroke and line recorded
PNGs had been exported, thumbnail beckoning, "See more!"
On a whim I'd also placed, a poem on screen, by copy/paste
And after several minutes spaced and culled the words I could ignore
It couldn't hurt to upload more than one submission for a score
That was all five years before

jlc40

haxrox wrote:Once upon an old computer, while I mused; a shirt.wooter
Contemplating Text as Art and laying out my evening's chore.
All that night I set to inking (as my time 'til work was shrinking)
A design that I was thinking, possibly could have allure.
"Will this get the votes," I wondered, "Votes sufficient to secure
A derby ranking above four?"

Successfully my sleep was thwarted, every stroke and line recorded
PNGs had been exported, thumbnail beckoning, "See more!"
On a whim I'd also placed, a poem on screen, by copy/paste
And after several minutes spaced and culled the words I could ignore
It couldn't hurt to upload more than one submission for a score
That was all five years before

jspickler

Although I have always liked this shirt, I have strayed away from buying it because so many people complained about the text blending with the background... Yay Woot! for putting this design on a lighter gray background!

meryl

jspickler wrote:Although I have always liked this shirt, I have strayed away from buying it because so many people complained about the text blending with the background... Yay Woot! for putting this design on a lighter gray background!

The shirt in the photo may look lighter -- but it's still called "Slate." So I'm not sure they switched out the shirt color to a lighter one. Slate accurately describes the shirt I have -- in which the raven has a cloak of invisibility.

haxrox

meryl wrote:So I'm not sure they switched out the shirt color to a lighter one. Slate accurately describes the shirt I have -- in which the raven has a cloak of invisibility.

The original is on "asphalt"; "slate" is a good bit lighter. Those are the shirt brand's official names for the colors, not just subjective adjectives. It does get confusing, since different brands use different (and sometimes overlapping) names. The "asphalt" color used now is actually darker that the original "asphalt", since woot switched suppliers, so it's especially nice to see the design on slate.

meryl

haxrox wrote:The original is on "asphalt"; "slate" is a good bit lighter. Those are the shirt brand's official names for the colors, not just subjective adjectives. It does get confusing, since different brands use different (and sometimes overlapping) names. The "asphalt" color used now is actually darker that the original "asphalt", since woot switched suppliers, so it's especially nice to see the design on slate.

danncer

Shirt.Woot has printed several cool designs based on Poe's "The Raven" that I'd like to own, but I don't want to buy multiple shirts. Also, as a well-endowed female, I don't like wearing designs that require someone to stare at my chest for an extended period of time in order to read all the words.

I would love for woot to offer a shirt or hoodie with a full-size version of Nevermore on the back and a small version of walmazan's The Raven on the front on the upper right or left side.

woot! purchases since 10/2006: a whole lotta wine, a closet full of t-shirts, a bunch of miscellaneous stuff, and not one single Box Of Crackers.

goldenthorn

nucleardrugs wrote:Just received the "lightweight" zippered hoodie. Lightweight is the word. Thinner than a T shirt and transparent. $35.00? What is the return policy and how do I start it?

I'm sorry you are not happy with your order, but shirt.woot does not have a return policy for buyer's remorse. Per the shirt.woot FAQ:

shirt.woot FAQ wrote:I don't like my shirt. Will you buy it back from me?
If your shirt is defective, or if we sent you the wrong size, or we sent you some other shirt by mistake, let us know through our Support page. If you just realized you don't look good in orange, or you decided not to check the sizing chart before you placed your order, well, our impulse is to say that you got yourself a new washrag.

Of course, you are always welcome to write in to support@woot.com with your issue. Please be aware that CS works normal business hours and thus will not respond on weekends. Good luck.

nucleardrugs

Washrag would be appropriate if the oversized zipper wouldn't scratch everything. Luckily PayPal has some great non flippant customer service staff that understands what keeping customers involves. I think my monthly purchases from Wood may even get a refund from your idea of customer service.

KittyPryde

The person who responded to you is a volunteer moderator. That means they do not work for Woot, they just advised you where to look regarding your answer. Your best bet would be to email the support address provided to you.

nucleardrugs wrote:Washrag would be appropriate if the oversized zipper wouldn't scratch everything. Luckily PayPal has some great non flippant customer service staff that understands what keeping customers involves. I think my monthly purchases from Wood may even get a refund from your idea of customer service.

goldenthorn

KittyPryde wrote:The person who responded to you is a volunteer moderator. That means they do not work for Woot, they just advised you where to look regarding your answer. Your best bet would be to email the support address provided to you.

Thank you! I am in no way anything approaching a woot employee. Indeed, I am but a fellow customer who got a pretty badge for... "helping" people find their way to information over the years. It enlivens the foruming, yeah? And, oh, I do so like helping! I'm just generous like that, y'know? (Woah, I just realized that I've been a Volmod for just over three years now! I remember the day I got this badge. My, how time flies! Oh, memories...)

KittyPryde

goldenthorn wrote:Thank you! I am in no way anything approaching a woot employee. Indeed, I am but a fellow customer who got a pretty badge for... "helping" people find their way to information over the years. It enlivens the foruming, yeah? And, oh, I do so like helping! I'm just generous like that, y'know? (Woah, I just realized that I've been a Volmod for just over three years now! I remember the day I got this badge. My, how time flies! Oh, memories...)

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